Kafka Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

Apache Kafka
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames requiring Kafka skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Kafka 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames 13.33% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 66.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £614 - -
25th Percentile £616 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £636 - -
West London median daily rate £625 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +31.58% - -5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Richmond upon Thames

Kafka falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Richmond upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3 12 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames 20.00% 60.00% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 22
10th Percentile £453 - £486
25th Percentile £513 £563 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £581 £531
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +9.41% -4.92%
75th Percentile £631 £628 £573
90th Percentile £635 £649 £587
West London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -0.45%

Kafka
Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kafka relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames.

Kafka job vacancy trend in Richmond upon Thames

Kafka
Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Kafka.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing Kafka

Kafka
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collibra
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Mixpanel
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) OLTP
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) GCP Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MapReduce
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Google